Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 92
On the following Sunday they all went to church, and she was asked whether she wished to go too; but, with tears in her eyes, she looked sadly at her crutches.
Who acts: children, Karen · What happens: go, ask, wish, look · To what, where: church, Karen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Karen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:10464): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 Sunday | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sunday | det |
| 3 | following | following | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Sunday | amod |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 they | det |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 church | case |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | aux:pass |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 went | conj |
| 15 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 17 wished | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wished | xcomp |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 looked | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 looked | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tears | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 tears | case |
| 25 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 looked | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tears | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tears | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 looked | nsubj |
| 31 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 32 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 31 looked | advmod |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 crutches | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 crutches | nmod:poss |
| 35 | crutches | crutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 looked | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | children = child | church | sunday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | Karen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | Karen | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Karen not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | past | Karen | with tears in Karen's eyes; at Karen's crutches; sadly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at crutch=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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